Sustainability
Series

Name: 'Bobcats are Back!'
Start: 2026-04-16T17:00:00-04:00
End: 2026-04-16T18:00:00-04:00
Location: Burton D. Morgan Center, 115 Lecture Hall

The Denison Sustainability Series features lectures, programming, and events with a sustainability theme.

Sustainability Series Coordinators:
Doug Spieles
Jeremy King ’97

If you would like your event to be added to this series, please contact the Chair of the Sustainability & Environmental Studies program.

Bobcat (Lynx rufus) walks along a log in winter [hkuchera – Adobe Stock]

April 16, 2026 5:00 pm

'Bobcats are Back!'

Burton D. Morgan Center, 115 Lecture Hall

Bobcats are elusive, charismatic, and ecologically important carnivores. Habitat loss and over-harvesting lead to their extirpation from Ohio by the mid-1800s, but in recent years, they have mounted a comeback. Beginning in 2015, Project Wild Coshocton (a research team at The Ohio State University at Newark) began documenting the distribution of bobcats in east-central Ohio using trail cameras. In this presentation, Shauna Weyrauch will discuss factors that have enabled bobcats to return, their current status in the state, the valuable role they play in ecosystems, as well as efforts underway to improve habitat for bobcats.

The interdisciplinary nature of sustainability is highlighted by the Sustainability Series, which features lectures, programming, and events with a sustainability theme. Sponsored primarily by the Sustainability and Environmental Studies (SES) program, and Denison’s director of Sustainability, the Sustainability Series welcomes input from academic departments across the campus as well as members of the Green Team student organization, the SES Program Fellows, the Sustainability Career Pathway initiative, and others.